Boomer's Summer 24

[boomer]

Injury plagues us - one of our members also rides horses and was involved in a rodeo (I don't think she was competing in this event but I don't know) and her horse spooked, throwing her off the horse. She landed hard, broke EIGHT ribs, her clavicle and scapula and fractured her L1 and L2 vertebrae and got a concussion and a punctured lung (thankfully she was wearing her helmet, which she rarely does) - so . . . she's out. She THINKS she'll be back in a couple of weeks . . . ROFL. So we were bowling without her and her husband - so -20 on a head's up night.

Practice - I'm having issues with getting pocket shots to carry . . . Teal is hitting the pocket but let's see if we can get more with the Trouble-maker.

Game 1 - 4-pin, strike, 10-pin, strike, 4-7-10, strike, 6-9-10 (whiff), strike strike pocket 7-10. Ugh 168. Fighting to get the little adjustment. We lost the point BIG. One of theirs bowled 278, and the other three all bowled up. What ya gonna do?

Game 2 - start through the nose with a 3-4-6-7-10 then did OK. picked up 4 10-pins and a 3-6 to hit 208. We still lost. They are HOT tonight.

Game 3 - whiff a 10, then too slow and through the nose for a 3-4-6-7 (completely pull the crap outta it to only get the 4-7) and then similar in the 4th (but picked it up) and then solid the rest for 195. Just could NOT score high enough to beat them - they were HOT HOT HOT.

Frustrating night. I went through all three of my balls and just could not get a consistent reaction. I did a lot of different things - down and in, hit flat and left 10-pins. Straight and in - if I was PERFECT it was good, otherwise, pocket 7-10, 10-pins. Swing it - had to slow so much down to swing it that I would go too slow and leave nasty splits. I ground it out for 571.

Good note - I picked up 6 10-pins and only missed 1. YAY!

[Aslan]

Good note - I picked up 6 10-pins and only missed 1. YAY!

That's something...with my 60% 10-pin conversion rate...I'd love to make 6 of them in one night.

[boomer]

yeah - tell me about it! I've been less than 50% for a few weeks, after not missing for more than a month. :/

[boomer]

We're back - skipped last week (making it up soon) but we're back. With a sub for our injured player.

Practice started with Mr. Teal (as always) and he was doing well, mostly very swishy strikes, but that's fine.

Game 1 - missed a dang 10-pin AGAIN. Good game, though. 237. Unfortunately the other team did really well - 3 of them bowled +20 to +30. What are ya gonna do? Lost the point.
Game 2 - Entire team doing well - I missed ANOTHER 2 10 pins but picked up 2 others . . . I switched to the Zen Master since Mr. Teal just wasn't really hitting. It was getting more and more swishy and I was watching the 6 pin get less and less powerful ramping into the 10 . . . trying to stay ahead. 5-bagger and ALL pocket shots so . . . good choice. Score was lower - 215 - but we were doing well. One teammate shot 279 and everybody else was at or above average so we took the point going away.
Game 3 - One bad miss - 6-10 and I picked the 10. LOL - otherwise solid. 235. The other team put up a fight until the 9th when they all went open and we all struck (I was on a double) and we blew them out. Point for game and total.

At the 8th frame in game 2 my shoulder locked then popped. NOT pleasant. . . so I focused on really loose and easy delivery to try to plug through. Ached a bit but was definitely do-able and was able to be smooth and did well. Shoulder is fine today - probably just delivered something weird.

[boatman37]

nice night!

[J Anderson]

nice night!

Ditto

[boomer]

Thank you!

[Aslan]

Those 10-pins.

And, it just goes to show you...even with an open here and there...if ya can just run some strikes together, you can still score well.

[boomer]

VERY unhappy. We went up against the league's biggest sandbaggers, and with one vacancy and one absence, I knew we were in for it.

Plus the lanes were . . . weird. I had a good reaction, but very few people did well. I had a good reaction, then I didn't, then I did, then I had over . . . was weird. Turns out I was also over-reacting to what I was seeing. I started with the Zen Master.

Game 1 - started great. 4-pin then turkey. Then missed a 10, and juuust missed a 2-4-10. And that's the way the rest of the game went. 170 - and we lost. Decided to move to the Teal Rhino.
Game 2 - MUCH better, although the score doesn't reflect it. I had the right lane DIALED but couldn't get the left. 194 - and we lost.
Game 3 - still had one lane dialed, but fought the other until the end when I decided to take Vicini's advice and, "go back to the beginning" - double, used my strike ball to pick up a 10-pin (which I NEEDED) and then left a 7 - needed a mark in the 10th to win the point.

This was NOT a satisfying night, at all. Nobody really had a good time. High-average bowlers tended to struggle.

I also was extremely sore - we had done an art show Thursday night (did NOT do well) and another which we set up Friday morning, came back Friday afternoon/evening and then all day Saturday (did pretty well) and then tear down Saturday night. Really beat me up - on my feet for 12 hours a day, then moving heavy ceramic items, etc. Ugh - need MORE pain meds! LOL

Oh well - we got a point, we're doing a makeup on Sunday so we'll see.

[boatman37]

Hate those nights. And same here...there are many nights where game 2 I crumble then game 3 I go back to what I did game 1 and can't miss.
But gotta say...glad I'm sitting out this summer. It was nice not having to go last night.